[sustran] Re: HT article: Oct 8, 2011

[Cornie Huizenga]

Dear Kanthu,

Did you see the response:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/mumbai/New-BMC-norms-for-your-footpaths/Article1-755154.aspx

A day after Hindustan Times launched a campaign to fight for your footpaths,
the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that it will
order all ward officials to follow a set of guidelines to im-prove and
maintain pavements.
The BMC has also decided to rope in experts from the Indian Institute of
Technology-Mumbai to train its engineers on how to lay paver blocks and
improve footpaths.

And the municipal corporation has announced that it will pay greater
attention to pavements while building new roads in the coming months.

On Saturday, Hindustan Times had revealed that the BMC has spent Rs 131
crore on Mumbai's pavements over the past five years, with little to show
for the expenditure but pavements that are crumbling, encroached upon,
uneven or altogether missing across the city.

Reacting to the HT report, Satish Badve, chief engineer of the civic roads
department, said instructions would now be issued to all ward officers on
maintenance of pavements. "Local officials will have to supervise work
conducted by various utilities. Strict action will be taken against those
who leave pavements in bad shape," Badve said.
Cornie

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Kanthi Kannan <kanthikannan at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The HT has published on Oct 8, 2011, the following articles
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> I am not able to copy the articles and hence sending only the link
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> Probably now with a national paper talking about the issue, it might become
> fashionable and hence more people might start discussing the critical issue
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> http://epaper.hindustantimes.
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> http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Publications/HT/HM/2011/10/08/INDEX.SHTML
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> http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/10/08/ArticleHtmls
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